the califate
...The Caliphate (2015)
Let us think about the unthinkable.
Let ISIS have their caliphate and be a state
The Zionists took Palestine and called it Israel
European settlers killed off the Indians
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Categories:
brutalities, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC
Africa What I See In You
...When I Google you,
I recognize the struggles and muggles you face,
I recognize the brutalities and the scars from decades of suppression and oppression which you endure;
The broken promises, faili...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, corruption, fate, future,
Form: Free verse
Fledges Class
...footsteps as I walk to the podium*
Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities.
“The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonie...
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Categories:
brutalities, dark,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Cry
...Let me cry
Offload my pain
Take away my grief
Redeem my heart with peace
Chi mu free me yes chi mu free me
Wash away my shame
Clean me up with love
Sweep away my death from near days
Re...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, dedication, desire, freedom,
Form: Epic
Democracy
...What is this, what is that, who is this?
There are words that we don't repeat twice
Especially when we omit the little cedilla
Please, my country is an island, a peninsula
A very pretty country ...
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Categories:
brutalities, america, betrayal, discrimination, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Dreamy Democracy In Danger
...This is not what we were taught in school
Fights, mayhems, police arrests and brutalities
In the soiled streets. Compatriots, it's never cool
To see so much blood and so many fatalities.
Compet...
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Categories:
brutalities, black african american, color,
Form: Rhyme
Ring the Bell of Love
...Ring the bell of love
Let the world be heal
Let it inhabitants receive light
Let the weak be strong
Let the captive be free
Oh let freedom be born again
Let unity be alive again
Please ri...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, confidence, courage, deep,
Form: Epic
The Cost of Nigeria Governance
...The Cost of Nigeria governance
I remember the crys of the youth
I remember the agony of our sisters
I remember how we die so young
I remember the poverty on our streets
I remember yes I r...
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Categories:
brutalities, abuse, africa, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Epic
Living
...Living
Some love me
Some hate me
Yet am still
The man I am
Some criticise me
Some encourage me
Yet am still
Who I am
I thank God despite
The ups and down
Life cave's
Yet am stil...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, confidence, courage, dedication,
Form: Epic
It My Birthday Today
...It my birthday today
I give thanks to God
For walking my ways with Me
It has never been easier
If I was ignorant of nature
Am happy am in peace
With life
So I gave thanks to God
To se...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, birthday, confidence, courage,
Form: Epic
Jinxed
...Screams, Screeches, groans and wails
Let me tell you Agonies’ tales
And of bullets, bombs and pellet guns
For a person with Heart must know these pains
Here somewhere, kids are blinded; men ...
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Categories:
brutalities, dark, earth, evil, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom
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Shriveled toes moving forth on muddled brown soil,
sending chills down the morose spine of brutalities.
Three hundred and fifty four days numbed in tyranny,
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Categories:
brutalities, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Black Lives Matter
...A gloomy song unfolds
Amid the chants for rights
Yet freedom wasn’t handed
Like centuries before .
Generations has emerged
And slavery has long been abolished
Left behind the scenes ?
Is it ...
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Categories:
brutalities, africa, america, anger, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Screams, Screeches, Groans and Wails
...Screams, screeches, groans and wails,
Brutalities, agonies, torture, and blood,
Tear Gases, pallet guns, bullets and bombs
Humanity sobs, world is falling apart
Does anyone care?
Kids are bli...
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Categories:
brutalities, child abuse, death, earth,
Form: Free verse
Brutalities of War
...Atrocious affliction trembles voices of anguish
Brewing vile horror in death of tomorrow
Fearing for the newborn, women, and children
For yesterday’s massacre killed her husband
And the war-torn...
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Categories:
brutalities, sorrow, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
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